“Schwartz is not only stunned to discover that his beautiful young mistress used to be a man, but she is actually the long-lost child of his good buddy Milty,” Reiter told me. “When Milty finds out that his son is now a daughter and that Al’s been schtupping her, chaos ensues.”

Jackie confronted Sheba on the street five years ago because he heard she’d been mocking him in her stand-up act, joking, “Sometimes I wish a better-looking comedian was my father, like Woody Allen or Rosie O’Donnell.”

Sheba lives near the Applejack Diner in Midtown, where Jackie holds court most nights. “But I don’t try to talk to him, because he doesn’t want to talk to me,” Sheba said.

As for whether Jackie is her father, “The blood tests said I am his daughter, and he paid child support until I was 18.”